 Don't get it twisted fam. Do not get it twisted. I've had more success in three years in Africa Than I had in my whole career in England You wanna come up? Oh my If you all can remember two years ago, I interviewed a woman in the Gambia and the video actually went viral And she just said one thing England is a dumb Sorry, I'm the one who said it. Yeah, I think this is the clip But other than that, England is an absolute dump. It's a dump and London is a dump You have small pockets of nice areas as you do in every country, but for me England is a dump And now I'm here to find out it's been two years. How has life been in the Gambia? What is going on in the Gambia with her life? How is everything with that? That's just two things that England is a dump because she was saying that Africa is a paradise I don't know Africa is the most beautiful place on the planet up into 27 countries And I have been coming back every single year since 2011 till now. I said, I've got to live here How can you not? How can you not live in paradise? I mean when people move from up the West and come to Africa for the first time they come with dollars They come with pounds they come with heroes and they start thinking that Africa is a paradise But it's been two years. Let's find out if she's still gonna talk the same way that she spoke two years ago Come with me Geez Come on Look where you were when we met exactly where you are now Where is this? We built this Talking that you're building a house. Yeah, we built it. It's down. Yeah. Last time you were living in a rented house Yes, this one is your own house. Yeah, we've which is I used to go to set up. England is a dump. Yeah, two years Oh, you've changed your mind now. What come on now? You know England's a dump I'm I pretending I got to tell the truth. I can't lie. You know, England's a dump. This is paradise. Look at this Would I believe it like this in England without my swimming pool in England? Yeah, would I be repping like this in England? Come on now? Oh No, I did have a range in England. That's not the point Would I be repping like this in England? No, I wouldn't tell the truth. We'd be dead in England Yeah, we wouldn't be living our life. Listen, by the minus and my energy comes from the Sun Yeah, my water comes from the earth. Yeah, my plants and my herbs. Yeah, I eat fresh food You don't see my guava tree. Come on now. Come on now. Will you say Africa is still a paradise? Africa is paradise. There's no doubt. No doubt. No doubt. Three years of experience. No doubt Gillette, I thought by the time I come in here Maybe you would have given up on Africa already because people are telling me that you came with dollars Pounds that's why you're saying that oh, England is a dump. Is that what they think? You didn't go back for the dollars. What for? What for? What you came back for money when there's money right here? Don't get it twisted fam. Do not get it twisted. I've had more success in three years in Africa Than I had in my whole career in England Listen, this conversation is gonna be deep Hey, it's nice to meet you again man. Welcome. Thank you. How is it? Good. You've grown man. Look at you No, come on. Let me give you a hug bro Thank you for watching Blacksit. Please subscribe to our channel Blacksit. That's your voice. Yeah Is that your voice? Yeah So yeah, we've come along Blacksits come along. Remember when we we worked all night? Yeah They don't even know the story behind that youtube page. They don't have to see you again. Oh, thanks for coming Thanks for coming. I told you that I'm gonna get your youtube channel. Yeah You said what do you want to name your youtube channel Blacksit? So, um, the Blacksit youtube channel is one of the seats that we saw in the Gambia Yes, and I think I've emitted a lot of people telling me that they Move to the Gambia because of your videos. Absolutely, which is inspirational. So I'm so glad I did that I'm Danjo Kajabi also known as Juliette Ryan from Blacksit Blacksit is a channel dedicated to your repatriation relocation back to Africa And that is the journey that I've taken. I've been living in Africa for three years. I'm living in the beautiful beautiful lovely smiling coast Someone is country in Africa the Gambia and this is where I call home When you come here the first thing they said to me is welcome back to your spiritual home That's what they said to me. I didn't get that when I went to Jamaica. I didn't get that when I went to America I didn't get that when I went to europe spain, france, turkey, portugal, italy I didn't get that when I went to Mauritius. I didn't get that when I traveled to cuba I didn't get that in all of the places that I've been. I didn't even get that in Tunisia, Morocco I didn't get that when I went to Egypt But I got that when I came back to the proper motherland, which I call, you know, black Africa And this is why like I said you have to make this your home. You're not living in England. You're surviving You're you're not even thriving You're just about existing and and this is what we're doing We're working to ourselves to death in England literally and the government are now trying to you know make You work harder for longer till 67 till you can retire. No So many of my friends have died before they even got to my age because of stress and other illness not eating good food Not, you know, not breathing good in not drinking clean water. This is the truth This is the truth trinkets and technology don't make a society people make a society in Africa You have what I call true community true love true bonding true unity And that's why I'm here I was Even here for how long now three years Three years three wonderful wonderful years. Wow You can make a business here You can make a business here and survive really well on that business It's not like England where you can't even afford to open a shop. You can't even stock it Here you can open a business and you can survive you can build a house You can buy a piece of land for like 2000 pounds and build your house Yeah, build your house put a few a few thousand aside and build your own home. You've got no mortgage Get solar you've got no electric bills got your own borehole. You've got your own water Just going by a canister of gas you're living Instead of working, you know for 65 years to pay off a mortgage 25 years to pay off a mortgage Mama Africa and you still don't own the land You still don't own the land the queen owns the land Whoa. Yeah, absolutely. So proud of a few. Yeah, loving it. I'm not going anywhere. I'm going nowhere I'm going nowhere. Well, I'll travel but I'm coming back traveling to where yeah yesterday. I was in Senegal How are you all doing today? Today we are going to Senegal. Oh, you're traveling within Africa. Yes, of course Africa is like I said, it's a mansion with many rooms We've got so many Africans in the diaspora who love to hear your voice. Yeah, if you have something to tell them, what will I be? Um, love Africa investing in Africa Everything you need is right here. Everybody else is taking out of Africa. We need to put back into Africa And so we need to become investors in our own future We need to become investors in our own destiny and we have to believe in ourselves first and foremost We have to have race solidarity race priority and we certainly need to have dignity and unity That's what we need moving forward and we need to plant, you know Agriculture is the way forward. We need to plant, you know, I'm sick of seeing imported rice. I'm sick of seeing imported stuff We need to manufacture. We need to produce and we need to come home We need to come home once we come home with the skills and the abilities We can all work together to make it happen. So what are you doing now in the Gabya day? I am here to show you something very special Outside of obviously blogging and doing black sit Um, we help to people to repatriate. We do we almost become like relocation repatriation specialists And inward investment specialists. I was a a business Developer in the UK. So I've really taken that to another level here Helping people to establish their businesses helping people to um, establish their homes Helping people to start their own estates their own portfolios Um, in addition to that doing a lot of charitable work loads and loads of charitable work Taking my automatic citizenship campaign to another level Have a come down passport now It's coming How soon? Well, the president said he's coming I'm sorry. I'm sure it is. No, no, no. I think we need to let the president know that It has to be faster. You know, we need that automatic citizenship I mean Ghana is doing it. So let Ghana inspire you all to start giving the dashboard that are returning in here Passport, you know what moving to Africa is not a movement. You know that yes You have to say something to me How has life been in the Gabyas? And this is my beautiful wonderful best husband in the whole wide world My age It's been good, um, brother It's been real good. It's a completely different to the west You know here feel more relaxed. I feel more free. You know, you get up you eat healthy and start exercising heavily now. So You know, um, I couldn't ask for anything better than to be here in the Gambia. He's not swimming now And he's not swimming Some lessons for next week Don't joke with a water, you know I still don't know how to swim Come on, let's go I still have my room in here, of course They promised me a room, you know, the guest house the guest house is yours. You see it there Yeah You couldn't buy a house in the UK with a swimming pool You can just cost a hell of a lot of money and of course you have to have a heated one because it's so cold and of course we're out of the cold No, no hot no heating bills. Listen people will not believe that you've got your own house even when they're pooling Yeah, did it cost you that much to own this? No, not really not really everything here is cheaper. So You know everything in here is more cost effective. So how is cost of living in the Gambia then? For us, it's absolutely fantastic I think your your your your your delasi stretches depending on your lifestyle And the lifestyle that I have I think People might think that I'm quite I don't know. Um, I think I'm quite modest. So I have modest lifestyle. I still go down to the market I buy my local market, you know, and buy from my local gardeners. So I try to keep costs low So But no you're out there and what you're doing to inspire us is just totally life changing I would say, you know, this is universe changing. You understand I'm going more than life changing. I'm going universe changing and So many people have said to me even yesterday on the ferry. Yeah to Senegal, you know I watched you write in my all these years past people are still talking about even a Garnier woman called Ruthie I got to give her up. She came from God. She's Garnier born in England But she came to Gambia and she's opened a chicken farm. Whoa. Yeah Massive like they they like 10,000 chicken. I love for you to go and see her You're not just changing lives inspiring lives, but we're actually living it and doing it You know living it and doing it and you're showing that it's possible Not only have you changed the narrative of Africa, but you've changed the narrative of africans How are you guys? We're cool on the Gambia beach here in Boorford. Yes, just enjoying it. Oh, thank you so much Are you? You take care. I follow your stuff on youtube sometime. I like your positive work in this continent Oh, thank you, sir. And I like your afro-centric same too. Oh, thank you so much. We are all one people one Africa One people one Africa. That's it. Don't let anybody discourage you. Thank you so much Some people's minds are messed up, but don't allow them to discourage you. Thank you so much. Thank you You know, you know that you're a superstar now. Yeah How does it feel living with a superstar? Ah, it's good But she's very popular Even me we're not going walking around in Senegambia everywhere. Adrian, how is Juliet? I said she's fine. She's fine. You know, we want to see her You know, but yeah You know, you know why she's a superstar Because we set up a channel from the Gambia. I think we spent a whole night Just to create a channel for her created her first video I've made an agreement with Vodemire that I'm going to create content And I'm going to put content out to promote Africa in a positive light and to show the real Africa And I want to say thank you so much for accepting this. Um, thank you And the channel still exists Blacks it but I can't comment on the channel anymore Oh, you know, we had cyber bullying. I'll gotta be honest with you. We had some serious high level Cyber bullying. I didn't even know what cyber bullying was. In fact, I didn't know what spamming was either If you remember, right, they had to call you to ask you what that was. Yeah I didn't know what any of this stuff was because remember I was new to youtube new to this whole online stuff I've been don't get me wrong. I've been on tv and I've been in the media in the uk a lot But those are unlike sky bbc itv but not my own sort of channel So I didn't I wasn't really that exposed as such to social media and and really I'm still not that really effective in social media However, um I realized that there's a lot of Also, there's a lot of positivity, but there's also a lot of negativity and I wasn't prepared for that So I'm like that. I will personally get involved and take it personally, which I probably shouldn't you know But I did No, you have to take it all back again because it causes engagement Yes Feel free. I mean, whatever you do people are gonna talk. You have to get used to it by now. You know, I have been there I mean, it's been nine years genuine youtube and I'm already used to these things You know, so all I'm gonna tell you is that before I leave you today or before I upload this video I want you to bring back the comment section bring back the subscribers. I mean We are giving this channel a new phase once again. So, you know what you're gonna do for me We've done it before. I mean We've done it before, right? We've got this channel 10,000 subscribers in few days So we can do it again Do me a favor the link will be in the description go subscribe support the channel and listen This channel is my baby So yeah, my own baby. Yes. So if you're seeing the dad in here, please subscribe to the baby Now thank you. Thank you There's a lot of investment going on in the gambia, right? A lot a lot a lot so much is going on at the moment A lot of development And a lot of that has come in from the diaspora and I've met them I've actually met a lot of the diaspora who've now established business who are building who are establishing You know manufacturing production soap factories Agri-processing it's all happening It's all happening people are coming back and doing major Agriculture as well and they're coming back from the diaspora and they're coming back And also gambians are also coming back home who left the gambia as economic migrants And so this is like been so refreshing to see We've engaged with so many different people on so different levels. We've even met the president, you know, I interviewed here as well and When I went to introduce myself you guys I know you are my subscriber Ha ha ha ha ha ha What are the opportunities in the gambia that you think the diaspora and the people of the gambia can take advantage of? Definitely agriculture without doubt agriculture. This place is so as you can see in my own gardens The place is so so fertile and it you know, you're good to grow rice You're good to grow anything here really it's suitable for most agricultural products as long as the weather suits obviously And I also think that it's right for the development with tourism as well And that is happening especially diasporas are now coming and bringing a lot of development within the tourism sector And of course there's a real estate because there's a shortage of housing here Um, as you know, there's taff city. Yeah coming up. Yeah coming up and loads of other estates And also all of the new and prospects that have also been done By self-raiser So there's a lot happening as well as uncle taff and what he's doing And so I think there's so many prospects especially for training education health centers And a lot of investment in social in social projects is needed here Clean water running water for certain villages electricity solar power and projects. I mean just The the opportunity is endless I don't think all is rosy. I don't think anything is rosy anywhere. I'm not a rose Not a rose. I'm not a rose. Can you can you tell me major challenge in the gambia? There's not um many major challenges, you know, I mean I could see the use of um Of an upstilling center where you know, you have a training center if we could bring that in so that we could help Just you know increase coming um Increase customer service and different things. These are some of the aspects that we want to work on Training centers, you know, like for me myself. I was a builder. So I would like to come and um Give you know, just give my talent give You know give back to the community help up skilling, you know, since you build that guys you build this house then Yeah, I was here when it was um all taken place. I was with it. So most of the different designs and all of that Um, I put it into place. Is this house off grid? Everything is off grid Use your own solar. Yes I'm eco crazy. I'm eco crazy. So everything has to be totally off grid. You have to be self sufficient The water come from the borehole everything is there Then we have the solar the battery is there Yeah So everything here is off. I don't even have to ask if you're living or you're surviving in Africa. I'm thriving honey. I'm thriving It's being a challenge. We all the attacks online and everything is just being a challenge You know every day that's why I'm the commenters down off every day people attacking you attacking you Who are the people? They're just anybody calling us names. You know, it don't make sense Yeah, I mean there was one person in particular that you know has obviously got a gripe and took to making nearly 43 videos negative ones You know, you know, I would tell that whatever people are saying pretend I see if you've not even seen it Yes, and do your own thing. Yeah, that's what I'm doing. So I mean I don't I'm for me personally. I don't like negativities. All I do is like I always put my mind with positive me too so fill yourself with positivity and keep moving because He is not a target The target is to bring the diaspora back home. Exactly. And that is what you need to focus on Listen Moving to Africa is not a movement and I don't want you to stop I want you to keep doing what you do and I'll always be a fire You know, I can't always come on board to support but I'm always supporting from afar I always see whatever you're doing. So I am very very grateful with blacksit You know, especially what they have done to bozora because water is everything in humanity. So This grateful I forgot to mention we've done some successful projects here We've done that bull hauling bozora that was successful We helped with our temporary world in our name And now so we give them petrol pumps So when they have the heavy flooding, you know, you could get the water channel away from the homes So we've done a lot of projects here. We give out food. We do so much different when the winds damage Yeah, the windstorm came we gave out 1,200 Corrigate sheets to help people restore their homes So we wanted to do more and solar lights as well and we helped to With a mosque that was broken down So we do a lot of community projects and that's really been very good And we got the black books project because I realized that it wasn't enough black books in schools So a lot of people donate their black books to us for the children have finished using someone new as well And we go out and we give that to schools just to balance The narrative that they're seeing the the the influence so they can also read about themselves read about their heroes The end of the day, you know, we have our own kings and queens that we can look up to And we have to and there are still kings and queens who are still occupying their thrones today So if you need to look for royalty, there is still african royalty in africa And so, you know, we need to realize how valuable africa is africa is the bread basket of the world We are the ones that are giving the cold bolt to the world. That's where all the phones are coming from All of the resources of africa everything in africa is what is power in the west So once we take control of our resources, we take back our power And that's what we need to do. We need to invest in ourselves. We need to stop the exports and start You know growing and making if we eat what we grow and grow we eat we don't have to depend on nobody else You've lived in africa for so long. So I guess like if you have one thing to change up africa, what would it be? Roads. I would put more investment in roads roads infrastructure transport. Yes And also we need to change the mindset Because a lot of africans look to the west as the best So we need to change that so that africans could come back here and invest back into africa Because africa have everything Education start in africa All the first um successful heart operation done in africa So we need to get our african minds back to africa itself and look into africa as a future You know and um as i was saying the work the black city is doing It has brought a lot of people back to invest people come back with their families to live in africa And that's that's is a great thing because it showed our mindsets are changing So most importantly is the mindset while the mindset change everything will change because the infrastructures the roads and all of that will be developed You know because she wants to change the mindset. That's why she said england is a dam Of course Of course, of course, you know it is come on. I don't know. You know right now, right? They had a windstorm a terrible windstorm, right? My mom sent me pictures the trees blown down everything is everywhere And the thing is is that what makes it a dump is the racism it's the total and complete racism someone sent me a video today of A lovely nigerian man on top saying that he wants to um, you know be the new elected mayor of peckham And they were doing voxpox underneath and she goes we've got enough of those over here We don't need any more of those nigerians here. They go back to nigeria That is what the white women were saying and that is the attitude So we do need to come back home there We've had years of them telling us to go back to our own country go back to the jungle go back to africa So let's go back to africa because this is paradise How does it thank you so much for everything thank you so much for spending time with me I really really appreciate you all don't stop what you're doing Go check out the black city tip channel subscribe and be part of the family My name is still water Maya the one and only annoying village boy from Ghana, and I'll see you all in the next one